Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

7 best books like Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography (Deirdre Bair): All Men Are Mortal, E. M. Forster: A Life, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, Robert Frost: A Life, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love, Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

All Men Are Mortal

Author	Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN	0393308456

When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his memory her performances will live forever. But, as he recounts the story of his immortal existence over more than six centuries, as she learns of his involvement...

E. M. Forster: A Life

Author	P.N. Furbank
ISBN	0156286513

I’ve owned this two-in-one volume for years and finally opened it after Jasmine's wonderful essay-review of Maurice had me thinking of Forster’s probable loneliness. Reading this made me feel better about that aspect of his life: yes, there was much (mostly physical) loneliness in his life,...

The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers

Author	Virginia Spencer Carr
ISBN	0820325228

The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented,...

Robert Frost: A Life

Author	Jay Parini
ISBN	0805063412

This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce...

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

Author	Sam Tanenhaus
ISBN	0375751459

Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy...

Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love

Author	Yehuda Koren
ISBN	0786718617

The failure of the marriage between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been considered from one of two conflicting viewpoints: hers or his. Missing for more than four decades has been a third perspective on the events that brought their marriage to its ill-fated end, the story of another—the other—woman:...

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

Author	Neil Astley
ISBN	1401359264

Assembling a diverse mix of contemporary poets-Mary Oliver, W.H. Auden, Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rita Dove, and hundreds more-Staying Alive is a unique anthology that illuminates the vital force of our humanity, the passion of our aspirations, the power of...